macOS Sonoma hands on first look: what's new?

macOS Sonoma brings a bunch of fun new features and tools to the Mac, so today we'll get hands on with macOS Sonoma after WWDC and check out the latest features! Though most people have been focused on the new Apple Vision Pro headset, there's still a lot to be gained from the new macOS Sonoma!

time stamps
0:00 intro
0:28 new lock screen
2:09 aerial wallpapers
3:08 widgets upon widgets!
4:13 video conferencing features
6:00 new in-line autocomplete
6:39 Safari search
7:04 Safari profiles
7:52 web apps
8:39 game mode

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[Dmitri_Q]

Wow, that was one of the cleanest switches to sponsor a segment I've seen in a while.

[restorationtech]

Can’t wait to patch this on my 2015 13” MacBook Pro 😂

[nath-wpxp]

Can’t wait to use the new screensavers/wallpaper feature. The Apple TV screensavers are gorgeous. About time it’s come to the Mac.

[josephmaldjian]

The game mode works on games other than Apple Arcade games as well, like steam games and stuff. It automatically turns itself on when you're playing a game and an icon for it will appear in the menu bar when it’s active.

[mma]

That widget feature is pretty cool. I remember having fun with desktop widgets back when I used KDE Plasma

[Marngel]

The widgets and web apps are the features I’m looking forward to the most. I’m confused as to why it took this long for Apple to implement web apps from Safari on the Mac considering that Chrome has been doing that for years. Heck, even the iPhone version of Safari has done this since the original version of iOS. But, I’m glad to finally see it be implemented on MacOS where I’ll find it more useful imo.

[iHusk]

It may have been outright said, but I think the reason why apple moved the password window to the bottom of the Lock Screen is for personal privacy reasons. It's easier to see in the middle. Usually lower on the screen is harder to peep.

[vigour]

For your comments on game mode, it's not just made for Apple Arcade games, macOS has been getting quite a few amazing top tier games lately and it will only get better with how simple they have made porting from windows architecture to apple silicon. Games like Resident Evil Village showed what Mac is capable of when developers put time into macOS and now with Kojima bringing Death Stranding: Directors Cut over it'll influence other developers to do the same.

[NOTLeavingLV]

Does anyone feel like macOS and iOS got a ton of windows vista and google pixel updates? Not a hater just apple doing the “we did your thing better” deal again.

[Barbarianjosh]

Calm, relaxing and last but not least a great video!

[theyjustwantyourmoney]

Just installed Ventura a few months ago, this is ridiculous

[catgirl_eva]

I generally keep my desktop clear (save for Recycle Bin on a Windows computer). That'll change once Sonoma releases. I'm not going to put a lot of widgets, just the ones I use on my iPhone and iPad. Weather, Calendar, and Batteries.

[penguinlust]

eGPU support on Apple Silicon? Fixing memory leaks and buffer overflows in Metal? Missing features and persistent bugs need to be fixed. Apple really needs to hunker down and do a major bug fix release.

[tecoz]

Honestly Mac OS sodom and gomorrah seems pretty cool, much better than ventura, which was basically a new wallpaper and mildly useful stage manager. I myself am sure I’ll be adding quite a few Web apps to my dock, and new sharing should prove useful during online classes. Can’t wait to download!

[egmccann]

I'll believe "mac gaming is coming" when I see it. Widgets... eh. When Win7 had them I think I mostly used a clock and the weather. Same with when they tried it with "active desktops" back in the W98 days. Really don't care about animated lock screens and wallpapers, don't use Facetime (and would find auto-emoji-confetti just annoying, ) so it's kind of an overall "meh" for me.

[THEMRMURDER]

The wallpaper feature was inspired by Aerial view, an app that did almost the same.

[joshualieberman]

the one feature i want and don't understand why they haven't implemented this yet, is seamless integration and cohesive switching what's playing on apple music from the mac to the iPhone/iPad like Spotify does between devices. Right now if you're playing music on the mac it only shows you what's now playing on the iPhone which is absolutely pointless if you can't pick up the iPhone and immediately switch the entire now playing queue and what not.

[xiaowong]

3:10 so Mac OS Android-Vista.... Has Apple ever done anything really good with Mac OS after the x86 on arm translation layer ?

[Zebra_Paw]

Compatibility list is the most important, it would be ridiculous to drop more perfectly good devices. hopefully OpenCore fixes that

[Sashashka]

Haven’t looked forward to a MacOS update in a long time. Now they just have to go back to the old settings menu 😸